Word: petrograd
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...film's plot is hardly new: the time is October 1917, the place is Petrograd, and the Bolsheviks are kicking the stuffing out of Alexander Kerensky's provisional government with the help of the cruiser Aurora, which is firing blanks at the Winter Palace. But what Moscow cinema fans found really new and startling at last week's premiere of Salvo of the Aurora were a couple of the bit players. For in Salvo, after nearly 40 years as an "unperson"-that ideological limbo to which the Soviets assign their villains-Leon Trotsky had returned...
Maxim Karolik, 69, the opera tenor from Petrograd who emigrated to the U.S., married a proper Bostonian millionairess and became the most conspicuous collector of 19th century American art, divides most of his time these days between his late wife's summer mansion in Newport and the Ritz in Boston. At the Ritz he usually lunches alone, but every few bites he springs across the room to greet in heavily accented English some acquaintance at another table. In Newport his batonlike index finger waves to the accompaniment of an avalanche of talk, which is usually about Maxim Karolik...
...public he "loves like a woman," he plans to unpack the most cherished contents of his "musical valise." The series will do more than demonstrate the impeccable artistry of the world's most legendary virtuoso. Like the late great Josef Hofmann's remarkable series of concerts in Petrograd, Russia, in 1913, it will, by comparison, illuminate the defects and virtues of the men who stand with Rubinstein as the greatest living players of the piano. The list is not long; it includes only three more: Rudolf Serkin, Vladimir Horowitz and Sviatoslav Richter...
Never a Doubt. Shostakovich composed the Twelfth this past spring and summer in his dacha outside Moscow. He let it be known that the score would deal with the October Revolution and that it was "dedicated to the memory of Lenin." The music is divided into four parts: revolutionary Petrograd, Razliv (the place where Lenin went into hiding to avoid arrest by the provisional government), Aurora (after the cruiser that fired on the Winter Palace), and the finale. Dawn of Mankind. The symphony avoids the dark colors and heavy textures of traditional Russian orchestral music; it recalls far better works...
...apathy"), to downright poor taste ("We will be done with the beatniks, the puerile purveyors of pornography, the limp-wristed bent-kneed writers. . .") niks, the puerile purveyors of porno-provided by the grown-ups. George Sokolsky, a syndicated columnist who began his journalistic career as editor of a Petrograd newspaper during the Revolution received the award for journalism. Speaking quietly with emotion, he declared: "For forty years I have been observing the struggle in the world against Communist revolution. . . There was not too much hope because those who were fighting were growing old, and soon none would be left...